fraud, he broke off all connection with him, and would never afterwards be seen in his company.  Kelly, being discountenanced by the Doctor, betook himself to the meanest practices of magic, in all which money and the works of the devil appear to have been his chief aim.  Many wicked and abominable transactions are recorded of him.  Wever, in his “Funereal Monuments,” records that Kelly, in company with one Paul Waring, who acted with him in all his conjurations, went to the churchyard of Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, where they had information of a person being interred who was supposed to have hidden a considerable sum of money, and to have died without disclosing where it was deposited.  They entered the churchyard exactly at midnight, and having had the grave pointed out in the preceding day, they opened it and the coffin, exorcising the spirit of the deceased until it again animated the body, which rose out of the grave and stood upright before them.  It not only satisfied their wicked desires, it is said, but delivered several strange predictions concerning persons in the neighbourhood, which were literally and exactly fulfilled.

In “Lilly’s Memoirs” we have the following account of him:—­

“Kelly outwent the Doctor—­viz., about the elixir and philosopher’s stone, which neither he nor his master attained by their own labour and industry.  It was in this manner Kelly obtained it, as I had it related from an ancient minister, who new the certainty thereof from an old English merchant resident in Germany, at what time both Kelly and Dee were there.

“Dee and Kelly being on the confines of the emperor’s dominions, in a city where resided many English merchants, with whom they had much familiarity, there happened an old friar to come to Dr Dee’s lodging, knocking at the door.  Dee peeped down the stairs:—­’Kelly,’ says he, ‘tell the old man I am not at home.’  Kelly did so.  The friar said, ’I will take another time to wait on him.’  Some few days after, he came again.  Dee ordered Kelly, if it were the same person, to deny him again.  He did so; at which the friar was very angry.  ’Tell thy master I came to speak with him and to do him good, because he is a great scholar and famous;—­but now tell him, he put forth a book, and dedicated it to the emperor.  It is called ‘Monas Hieroglyphicas.’  He understands it not.  I wrote it myself.  I came to instruct him therein, and in some other more profound things.  Do thou, Kelly, come along with me; I will make thee more famous than thy master Dee.  Kelly was very apprehensive of what the friar delivered, and thereupon suddenly retired from Dee, and wholly applied unto the friar, and of him either had the elixir ready made, or the perfect method of its preparation and making.  The poor friar lived a very short time after; whether he died a natural death, or was otherwise poisoned or made away by Kelly, the merchant who related this did not certainly know.”